breadth
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Short-term breadth readings only occasionally signal a pullback, and usually just a minor one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
This explains why breadth in the S&P’s slow grind higher of late has been so narrow.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
When the market gets those inflows into laggards, breadth naturally expands.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
The breadth of Patekar's career showcases the wide range of his work.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
He tabulated the chest breadth and height of 5,738 soldiers to demonstrate that chest size and height were distributed along smooth, continuous, bell-shaped curves.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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John B. Read’s lighting now makes less marvelous effects from the depths and breadths of the Met stage.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2014
Meg, who went shopping in the afternoon and got a ‘sweet blue muslin’, had discovered, after she had cut the breadths off, that it wouldn’t wash, which mishap made her slightly cross.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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"I'm just ready to try it on," and Kate, the maid, appeared in the doorway, her mouth full of pins, and her hands full of voluminous breadths of tulle.
From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells
But time went on and on, for seven lengths and seven breadths, and yet he did not come back.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen
The breadths of satin are put together so that the stripes meet in points at the seams.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
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